| El Lobo | 08 Nov 2017 12:04 p.m. PST |
Why are the 95th Rifle Battalions so popular with wargamers and so widely available to buy .I know they are classed as "elite" I've even heard them described as the Napoleonic SAS( quite a statement)so why aren't units such as the 5th batt 60th or the Portuguese Cazadores rifled coys held in such high regard?The overall effect of such units through out the Napoleonic wars must have been on a par to each other. |
| Tango01 | 08 Nov 2017 12:04 p.m. PST |
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Amicalement
Armand
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| Old Peculiar | 08 Nov 2017 2:03 p.m. PST |
95th? Had some good writers in their ranks, and others who saw them as the source of good stories. The rest is propoganda. |
| 14Bore | 08 Nov 2017 5:12 p.m. PST |
I would put it down to the Sharpe series, many first hand accounts ( bonus in English) and a excellent unit leading in many battles. Don't have many British units myself in fact only a few Highlanders and the 1 battalion of the 95th. |
| Cacique Caribe | 09 Nov 2017 1:03 a.m. PST |
Man, that is one OLD battalion! :) Dan |
| Tango01 | 09 Nov 2017 11:42 a.m. PST |
Ha-Ha-Ha… Good one Dany!…
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Armand
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Gunfreak  | 11 Nov 2017 9:35 a.m. PST |
Did the 5th battalion 60th ever fight as a battalion? Didn't always get parceled out as company sized detachment or smaller?
While the 95th fought as half and full battalions. And you can just use 95th figures and paint as 5/60th |
| dibble | 16 Nov 2017 5:36 p.m. PST |
The 5/60th fought as a battalion at Vimerio, alongside the 50th and 2/95th. In Fane's 6th Brigade. They also fought alongside the 95th at the earlier battle of Rolica. The 60th were broken up into Companies when the Duke commanded them the second time around in the Peninsula. Paul |
| dibble | 16 Nov 2017 5:38 p.m. PST |
Old Peculiar Propaganda? What propaganda was that? Paul :) |
| El Lobo | 20 Nov 2017 11:29 a.m. PST |
If the rifle was so accurate and had such a good reputation on the battlefield then why didn't Napoleon have his own rifle unit,( or did he?) especially when the French seemed to put so much resources into fielding Light infantry Battalions /companies of voltigeurs and using skirmish tactics.I know it took longer to load a rifle and to train a rifleman than a musket holding soldier ,but its not as if he didn't have enough time to do so.(ie raise a rifle unit) |
| dibble | 20 Nov 2017 4:28 p.m. PST |
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takes the plunge!
